There was an incredibly amount of information about Tiger being on the way. I was going to get a mini earlier but waited for an official upgrade announcement of this kind. Hooray for me.
I have no interest whatsoever in oversized, overpriced, overpowered, overhyped game system such as the XBox. I'm not holding my breath on the XBox2, but who knows. I don't even know the dimensions of the thing, let alone the more important question of "what games can I play on it".
And actually, you might be the LAST person in the US that doesn't have basic cable.
Actually most "basic" cable service does not include MTV and such, generally just "the networks" and a few channels such as CSPAN, CSPAN2. This "basic" cable service generally runs something like $10 to $15 per month.
The service which adds the 50 or so channels like MTV, ESPN, CNN, VH1, and so on, is generally called "standard" cable. While rates vary wildly in different states, etc, generally $35 to $50 per month.
When I can buy the copy from the artist and sell copies to others THEN we have a free market.
If you mean to say that you currently cannot sell the copy that you bought, then you're wrong. eBay (among other places) is filled with people selling their used books, CD's, and DVD's.
If you mean to say that you want to make additional copies of the copy you bought and sell them as well, well then your analogy to "real property" breaks down pretty quickly. Something about the fundamental differences between making "copy" of a 2004 Toyota Camry and making a copy of the latest U2 album.
the idea time system for me would simply make time 0 be midnight on the international date line. people seem to be attached to hours and minutes, as cumbersome as they are, so for the sake of argument we'll stick with 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour, and leap years, all that. So at 0 hours (or 12 AM if you desire that kind of clock) the people of Kiritimati are asleep, and the people in England are on their lunch break. Bizarrely, this would have the work day in England starting something like 2000 hours (8 PM) and ending something like 400 hours (4 AM). Yes, you might go to work for a regular "daytime" shift on a Tuesday, and come home on a Wednesday. It might possibly confuse people at first, but fairly quickly it would be known that Englanders work "8 PM to 4 AM", New Yorkers work "1 AM to 9 AM", and only the Kiritimatis would be able to say they work the traditional "9 AM to 5 PM" shift. But "4 AM Wednesday" would be the exact same "time" everywhere in the world and no time zone or daylight savings qualifier would be necessary.
Now (and here's the part where it gets tricky!/sarcasm) the schools and businesses of New York don't actually have to be set from 1 AM to 9 AM. Hell, it could be dark at 1 AM for God's sake! So there could be a seasonable shift of typical business and school hours to be from 2 AM to 10 AM, for example, if there were sufficient local demand (which school times being set would likely create).
Anyway the mere fact of surrounding ourselves with clocks is a bizarre and uniquely human thing. Most creatures use, oh, the Sun to determine when to do things like crow, eat, migrate. But not us, we use the almighty clock and then stand bamboozled and baffled when we have little problems matching up what the clock says to where the glowing yellow source of life on this planet happens to be, and invent all kinds of torturous schemes and strategems to force our clocks to "work".
Universal Time. It's been tried before, and tried again, and then even tried more recently in a different fashion from UTC and bizarre marketing fashion: Internet Time from Swatch.
Personally it would make the most sense to use the International date line as the time meridian no matter the "unit" of time you choose, but hey, apparently I'm a raving lunatic. I also don't care if "time X" means anything definite with regards to the position of the sun or whether I'm at work or whether the kids are in school. The sun would likely rise somewhere between "X" and "Y" time and go back and forth depending on season, and schools and businesses could either have set or moving times going with the seasons instead of "following the clock".
And isn't the right to free speech "inalienable" in the U.S.?
I believe only life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the list denoted "inalienable" rights. Of course "liberty" and "pursuit of happiness" being so incredibly broad and vague, who knows what you could get a judge to decide.
exactly, and unlike Altivec, there are no "special instructions" to get benefits from Niagara -- just synchronization, deadlock, and such parallel processing issues which most enterprise software is already aware of.
(to dumb it down: no new opcodes, existing software will benefit if it can, break if it was poorly written to begin with.)
please stop confusing SVG with some other technology that cannot display graphs. In fact my company uses SVG technology to display all kinds of information in graph format, rendering server-side SVG to PNG for display by a web browser using Batik. When browser support is fixed we will be able to simply send the SVG itself and provide more interactivity with the graph (not graphic) by being able to click data points, for example.
I guess I don't know the exact problem domain you are working with or what application environment you are looking to present graphs with... but server-side SVG generation has worked pretty well for us.
Check out Batik and see if it can fit your solution.
I played an all-pvp mud called "GroundZero" back in the day. Basically a 25x25 grid with some walls, random weapons everywhere, and two teams. You kill each other, then you kill each other some more. (There were some other little things but basically you just pick up an M-16 or USPS-Issue-Standard-Assault-Rifle, or electron cannon, chain saw, flame thrower, grenades, whatever, find some ammo if applicable, and hunt down players on the other team.) The ranks in the game were determined by kill ratio and total kills, so that a player with 200 kills and 10 deaths had a much higher rank than a player with 200 kills and 200 deaths.
WoW's system appears to simply be total (honorable) kills. Nothing at all to do with skill whatsoever. So person X who gets 100 kills and dies 200 times gets the same "score" as person Y who gets 100 kills and dies 10 times.
It would be incredibly simple to factor in kill ratio to the formula, but I'll admit there would be drawbacks to that as well. Powerful groups would rarely suffer a casualty and would just rack up their score. To counteract this you can apply the existing notion of "sharing" an honorable kill with your group to "sharing" a pvp death with your group, but ramp up the death share and drive down the kill share. (E.g. 100 group kills might equal 200 total "kill points" for the group, but 100 group deaths might equal 300 total "death points" for the group.)
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy about 50 million darkyears away from Virgo that appears to be composed entirly of light matter. This galaxy, dubbed EARTHHI21 is rotating like a real galaxy, at speeds only explainable through massive amounts of matter, thought no single dark mass could be detected."
i'd quote the relevant section of the constitution granting congress the powers to "regulate commerce" and "grant exclusive rights" to content authors but it would be futile. again, the wording is open to interpretation, and all it takes are a few judges to decide that "yup, the broadcast flag could fall under these powers if you think about it".
also, the Xth amendment has largely been ignored for the better part of 100 years, and been chipped away at by power hungry politicians for nearly 100 years before that.
wtf are you talking about. search the text of the US Constitution and you will not find the phrase "fair use".
you seem to be talking about the generally held/interpretation/ that the language actually present in the constitution denotes a "fair use right" -- and much as the "right to privacy", the "right to own a handgun", "the right to choice", and the "right to have gay sex", anything up to interpretation is likely to be re-interpreted.
us freedom-loving people have had it high on the hog with the centralisation of power under a liberal government (except for gun rights). now that this centralised power is under conservative control we're shocked (shocked!) when the interpretation changes to our disliking. boo fscking hoo.
if we want a lasting right to fair use, to privacy, or whatever, we had better get it/in writing/ and not rely on changing interpretation or to wait and see which pile of lawyers has the bigger money pile.
if we don't want a powerful central government dictating law to us from their corporate puppeteers, then massive decentralisation of that power or, at least, less corrupt influences on that power, are needed. seriously, is there a more sure recipe for corruption than to put as much power in as few hands as possible? guess what, the Constitution never outlined plans to vest this much power in Washington, DC, but a rampant-running series of/interpretations/ centralising power not only left us with an FCC which could mandate the broadcast flag, it left us with not much choice other than to just take it in the arse when they mandate it. the FCC is just another massive government agency battling for tax dollars in a massive, misspent, misfortunate contest of penis size as budget cap.
when a teen kills themselves, many causes are in effect. however none of these causes are the actual decision by the individual to commit suicide. blame the parents? maybe. blame the individual? surely. blame a computer game? are you kidding?
this is the angry cry of a parent who does not want to face up to the fact that their son decided that life was no longer worth enduring. perhaps there was no fault in the parenting, perhaps they showed love and encouragement. but in general if you don't blame "something" then the parents, rightly or wrongly, are thought to be a part of the problem.
when, instead of playing the blame game and refusing to face reality, this parent could try to understand what really drove her son's decision to take his own life. but instead she chooses to play the blame game and trod over the memory of her dead son. does it make sense to blame a computer game for the fact that your son did not find life worth living?
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Where does it say that Tiger is coming with Java 1.5?
There was an incredibly amount of information about Tiger being on the way. I was going to get a mini earlier but waited for an official upgrade announcement of this kind. Hooray for me.
I have no interest whatsoever in oversized, overpriced, overpowered, overhyped game system such as the XBox. I'm not holding my breath on the XBox2, but who knows. I don't even know the dimensions of the thing, let alone the more important question of "what games can I play on it".
I've been waiting for Tiger so I can go ahead and order my new Mac (and not have to pay the "upgrade" tax). Looks like the wait is over. Whee!
And actually, you might be the LAST person in the US that doesn't have basic cable.
Actually most "basic" cable service does not include MTV and such, generally just "the networks" and a few channels such as CSPAN, CSPAN2. This "basic" cable service generally runs something like $10 to $15 per month.
The service which adds the 50 or so channels like MTV, ESPN, CNN, VH1, and so on, is generally called "standard" cable. While rates vary wildly in different states, etc, generally $35 to $50 per month.
Last year in music, I bought 6 CD's (around $15 per) and about 100 iTunes. Let's round that up to $200 to make it easy.
Last year in games, I bought World of Warcraft ($50) and a 3-month pre-paid card ($45). Let's round that up to $100.
When I can buy the copy from the artist and sell copies to others THEN we have a free market.
If you mean to say that you currently cannot sell the copy that you bought, then you're wrong. eBay (among other places) is filled with people selling their used books, CD's, and DVD's.
If you mean to say that you want to make additional copies of the copy you bought and sell them as well, well then your analogy to "real property" breaks down pretty quickly. Something about the fundamental differences between making "copy" of a 2004 Toyota Camry and making a copy of the latest U2 album.
the idea time system for me would simply make time 0 be midnight on the international date line. people seem to be attached to hours and minutes, as cumbersome as they are, so for the sake of argument we'll stick with 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour, and leap years, all that. So at 0 hours (or 12 AM if you desire that kind of clock) the people of Kiritimati are asleep, and the people in England are on their lunch break. Bizarrely, this would have the work day in England starting something like 2000 hours (8 PM) and ending something like 400 hours (4 AM). Yes, you might go to work for a regular "daytime" shift on a Tuesday, and come home on a Wednesday. It might possibly confuse people at first, but fairly quickly it would be known that Englanders work "8 PM to 4 AM", New Yorkers work "1 AM to 9 AM", and only the Kiritimatis would be able to say they work the traditional "9 AM to 5 PM" shift. But "4 AM Wednesday" would be the exact same "time" everywhere in the world and no time zone or daylight savings qualifier would be necessary.
/sarcasm) the schools and businesses of New York don't actually have to be set from 1 AM to 9 AM. Hell, it could be dark at 1 AM for God's sake! So there could be a seasonable shift of typical business and school hours to be from 2 AM to 10 AM, for example, if there were sufficient local demand (which school times being set would likely create).
Now (and here's the part where it gets tricky!
Anyway the mere fact of surrounding ourselves with clocks is a bizarre and uniquely human thing. Most creatures use, oh, the Sun to determine when to do things like crow, eat, migrate. But not us, we use the almighty clock and then stand bamboozled and baffled when we have little problems matching up what the clock says to where the glowing yellow source of life on this planet happens to be, and invent all kinds of torturous schemes and strategems to force our clocks to "work".
Universal Time. It's been tried before, and tried again, and then even tried more recently in a different fashion from UTC and bizarre marketing fashion: Internet Time from Swatch.
Personally it would make the most sense to use the International date line as the time meridian no matter the "unit" of time you choose, but hey, apparently I'm a raving lunatic. I also don't care if "time X" means anything definite with regards to the position of the sun or whether I'm at work or whether the kids are in school. The sun would likely rise somewhere between "X" and "Y" time and go back and forth depending on season, and schools and businesses could either have set or moving times going with the seasons instead of "following the clock".
Why should tracks I buy from an online music store be more restrictive in what I can do with them than ones that come on red book Audio CDs?
That's a good question. Perhaps you would like to start an online business offering just that. Tell us how that negotiation with the RIAA goes.
And isn't the right to free speech "inalienable" in the U.S.?
I believe only life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the list denoted "inalienable" rights. Of course "liberty" and "pursuit of happiness" being so incredibly broad and vague, who knows what you could get a judge to decide.
Is there an Eclipse plugin for Bazaar-NG?
exactly, and unlike Altivec, there are no "special instructions" to get benefits from Niagara -- just synchronization, deadlock, and such parallel processing issues which most enterprise software is already aware of.
(to dumb it down: no new opcodes, existing software will benefit if it can, break if it was poorly written to begin with.)
Please stop confusing graphics with graphs.
please stop confusing SVG with some other technology that cannot display graphs. In fact my company uses SVG technology to display all kinds of information in graph format, rendering server-side SVG to PNG for display by a web browser using Batik. When browser support is fixed we will be able to simply send the SVG itself and provide more interactivity with the graph (not graphic) by being able to click data points, for example.
I guess I don't know the exact problem domain you are working with or what application environment you are looking to present graphs with... but server-side SVG generation has worked pretty well for us.
Check out Batik and see if it can fit your solution.
kill ratio would be a good start.
I played an all-pvp mud called "GroundZero" back in the day. Basically a 25x25 grid with some walls, random weapons everywhere, and two teams. You kill each other, then you kill each other some more. (There were some other little things but basically you just pick up an M-16 or USPS-Issue-Standard-Assault-Rifle, or electron cannon, chain saw, flame thrower, grenades, whatever, find some ammo if applicable, and hunt down players on the other team.) The ranks in the game were determined by kill ratio and total kills, so that a player with 200 kills and 10 deaths had a much higher rank than a player with 200 kills and 200 deaths.
WoW's system appears to simply be total (honorable) kills. Nothing at all to do with skill whatsoever. So person X who gets 100 kills and dies 200 times gets the same "score" as person Y who gets 100 kills and dies 10 times.
It would be incredibly simple to factor in kill ratio to the formula, but I'll admit there would be drawbacks to that as well. Powerful groups would rarely suffer a casualty and would just rack up their score. To counteract this you can apply the existing notion of "sharing" an honorable kill with your group to "sharing" a pvp death with your group, but ramp up the death share and drive down the kill share. (E.g. 100 group kills might equal 200 total "kill points" for the group, but 100 group deaths might equal 300 total "death points" for the group.)
too bad, sounded like an interesting article.
Okay, when can I roof my house in this and at least use it to power the water heater?
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy about 50 million darkyears away from Virgo that appears to be composed entirly of light matter. This galaxy, dubbed EARTHHI21 is rotating like a real galaxy, at speeds only explainable through massive amounts of matter, thought no single dark mass could be detected."
Does it run MacOS X? No? Next...
the ability to turn essentially anything organic (even people - soylent diesel, anyone? :) ) into oil
damn... that's an idea that could only come from a sick, twisted mind.
i likes.
i'd quote the relevant section of the constitution granting congress the powers to "regulate commerce" and "grant exclusive rights" to content authors but it would be futile. again, the wording is open to interpretation, and all it takes are a few judges to decide that "yup, the broadcast flag could fall under these powers if you think about it".
also, the Xth amendment has largely been ignored for the better part of 100 years, and been chipped away at by power hungry politicians for nearly 100 years before that.
and since there is no hockey, we just get Anne of Green Gables, of Avonlea, of etc...
wtf are you talking about. search the text of the US Constitution and you will not find the phrase "fair use".
/interpretation/ that the language actually present in the constitution denotes a "fair use right" -- and much as the "right to privacy", the "right to own a handgun", "the right to choice", and the "right to have gay sex", anything up to interpretation is likely to be re-interpreted.
/in writing/ and not rely on changing interpretation or to wait and see which pile of lawyers has the bigger money pile.
/interpretations/ centralising power not only left us with an FCC which could mandate the broadcast flag, it left us with not much choice other than to just take it in the arse when they mandate it. the FCC is just another massive government agency battling for tax dollars in a massive, misspent, misfortunate contest of penis size as budget cap.
you seem to be talking about the generally held
us freedom-loving people have had it high on the hog with the centralisation of power under a liberal government (except for gun rights). now that this centralised power is under conservative control we're shocked (shocked!) when the interpretation changes to our disliking. boo fscking hoo.
if we want a lasting right to fair use, to privacy, or whatever, we had better get it
if we don't want a powerful central government dictating law to us from their corporate puppeteers, then massive decentralisation of that power or, at least, less corrupt influences on that power, are needed. seriously, is there a more sure recipe for corruption than to put as much power in as few hands as possible? guess what, the Constitution never outlined plans to vest this much power in Washington, DC, but a rampant-running series of
when a teen kills themselves, many causes are in effect. however none of these causes are the actual decision by the individual to commit suicide. blame the parents? maybe. blame the individual? surely. blame a computer game? are you kidding?
this is the angry cry of a parent who does not want to face up to the fact that their son decided that life was no longer worth enduring. perhaps there was no fault in the parenting, perhaps they showed love and encouragement. but in general if you don't blame "something" then the parents, rightly or wrongly, are thought to be a part of the problem.
when, instead of playing the blame game and refusing to face reality, this parent could try to understand what really drove her son's decision to take his own life. but instead she chooses to play the blame game and trod over the memory of her dead son. does it make sense to blame a computer game for the fact that your son did not find life worth living?